Pumping jack and driving means for same



Oct. 21 1924.

H. W. RUNNING PUMPI JACK AND DRIVING MEANS FOR SAME Filed Abril 0,'

[Al VE/VI'OR Patented 2l, i924.

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFIQC'E,

HENRY W. RUNNING, OF LQRETTI-i. TOWNSHI?, GRANT) 'FORKS COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA. Y i

PUMPING JAP/K AND DRTVING MEANS FOR SAME.

Application filed April 20, 1923. Serial No. 633,453.

T c all w/iom if; may concern.'

Be it knownthat 1,. HENRY W. RUNNING, a citizen of the United States. residing in the township of Loretta, in the county of Grand Forks and State of North Dal y have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Fumping Jacks and Driving Means for Same of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pumping jacks and driving means for same and the objects are; first, to provide a pumping jack with means for readily securing it to common well pump; second, to provide such pumping jack with an electric motor having a support serving'certain goed purposes in its connection with the driving and the driven parts.

In the accompanying drawing :g

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a well pum) having my invention connected with it and a portion of a well house.

Fig. 2 is Fig. 1 seen from right to left with the flywheel 39. pulley 40 and gears 37-38 shown in outline only.

Fig. 8 is mainly a top view of the bracket holding the motor.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of a small portion of the bracket.

Fig. 5 is a left hand side view .f Fig. 4 with the portion of the brace lowered.

Fig.. 6 is a section on line te in Fig. 1 with some parts omitted.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 6 designates the platform usually covering a well (not shown). The element 6 may also be considered as the floor of a well house or pump house of which l have illustrated only a wall portion 7 having a studding 8. In Fig. 2 7a represents a wall of the house not shown in Fig. 1 because it is there broken away at the left side of the view.

Secured at 9 upon the platform 6 is collar 10 fixed at 11 to the body 12 of any Jform of a pump suspended or set in a wall. In the present drawing the pump body or shell 12 is shown to be of the most common type, being hollow and reenforced by two collars 18 and 14, while in one side is a vertical slot 15 with side lugs 16 between which is fulcrumed at 17 the usual pump lever 18, the short arm 19 of which is pivoted at 20 to the pump rod 21 which extends upward from the piston or plunger of the pump cylinder which being low down is not shown. The lugs 16 may be formed on a bracket 22 secured on the body 12 and the latter may be of either wood or galvanized sheet iron or other material.

J ust below the collar 14 or at some other suitable point of the body 12 I secure by bolts 23 a split clamping ring 24 the bolted ends of which are formed with inverted notches 257 which engage in the bottom loops of two V-shaped braces 26, each of which has its ends'passed upward through a skeleton frame 27 in which they are secured by nuts 28 and hold said 'trame firmly in place. VEhe frame is also steadied by having ribs 29 disposed about the top of the pump body at tour sides (see Fig. 6). i i

One end of the frame 27 may have a notch 30 for a lug 31 of a fra1ne'32 which may be secured by bolts, or screws 38, upon frame 27, or the two frames maybe cast in one piece if' so desired. In the frame 32 is journaled a shaft 84 having a crank 85 connected by a pitman 36 to the upper portion 21a of the pump rod 21.l llVhere the pump rod is short enough to require it, the part 21a is spliced onto it by a suitable jointl 2lb, so as to get the pitman to extend from the crank upward where it can easily be reached for repair or for detachment when the handle 18 is to be used while the motor may be out of order.

Fixed at the other end of the shaft 34 is a gear 37 which is driven by a pinion 38 fixed to a flywheel 89 having secured to its other side a pulley 40 driven by a belt 41 from a pulley 42 fixed on the shaft 43 of an electric motor 44. The pulley 407 flywheel 39 and pinion 38, secured together as stated, rotate on short shaft 45 fixed in the lug 81.

The motor is secured by bolts 46 upon a normally horizontal arm 47 of a supporting bracket adapted to be secured to the wall of the well house or to other stationary structure by bolts or lag-screws 48 from which the bracket may be removed when so desired by lifting it, because the holes in it for the screws arekey-hole shaped as shown at 49, with the lower end of each hole large enough to slip over the head of the screw. By this arrangement the motor and the bracket supporting it may readily be moved and put up at dilierent places as on a farm and used for running corn shellers, corn huskers, feed grinders etc.

To make the motor support or bracket as efiicient and suitable as possible it is pref.- erably constructed of angle iron and coinpoSe-d of the horizontal supporting arm 47, a vertical main bar 50 to which arm i7 is pivoted at 5l. The end of arm 47 holding the motor is supported by an inclined brace 52 which has its upper end pivoted at 53 and its lower end flattened and supported by either one of several upwardly inclined teeth 54 struck up in one of the flanges of the bar 50 (see Figs. l, 2, 4l and 5) the end of the brace having a notch 55 to insure its staying on the. tooth engaged.

y The pivot 53v also holds one end of a horizontal brace 56 having its other end pivoted at 57 to a comparatively small piece of angle iron 58 which also has key hole shaped holes 49X for bolts in both of its flanges, the saine as the two flanges of the large upright bar V50.

' In the application and use of the large bracket it'will be noted in Figs. l and 2 that it is secured to the inner narrow faces Of the studding 8, while in Fig. 3 is shown how it may be secured to the face of the wall 7. In Fig. 3 the studdings 8X are shown in dotted line andthe lag screws i8 indicate how the bracket may be secured to the sides of the studding standing at right angles to the wall 7. This explains the use of bolt holes in both flanges of the angle iron according as circumstances may require the placing of the bracket. In Fig.

2 is shown in dotted line that the arm 47 may be lowered to almost vertical position so as to reach the motor for repairs, oiling etc. A main object of this arrangement of brace 52 and teeth or steps 54 is to enable the belt il to be tightened by simply moving the lower end of the brace a step upward when the belt gets slack.

Having 4thus described my invention what l claim is:

l. In a device of the kind described, a well pump having a tubular body arranged above the well, a horizontally disposed frame resting upon the top of said body, a divided ring secured about the `body below the horizcntal frame and having dian'ietrically opposite lugs with inverted notches, V-shapedbraces engaged in said notches and having their ends extended upwardV through the horizontal frame and provided with nuts bearing upon the frame, al mechanism frame fixed upon the horizontal frameA and having journal bearings and a fixed stub shaft, a crank journaled in said bearings and operatively connected with the pumping rod of the pump, a gear fixed on the crankshaft, a pinion rotatable on the stub shaft, a flywheel and a pulley secured to the pinion, an endless belt on the pulley and a. motor having a pulley driving said belt.

2. The structure specified in claim l, said pump body having a rigid collar about it close above the ring holding the braces.

HENRY WV. RUNNN Gr.

In testimony whereof l allix my signature. 

